Thanks! Will continue to dither about the next cycle, but that will be mid-Fall sometime, so plenty of time to think.
I will have to try the belt squat. I haven’t gone truly heavy with squat in a while, keeping it at 275 for worksets, given the shoulder and other pains heavy squats inflict on me. But my legs have suffered a bit as a result, and the leg press and hack squat machine just don’t do the same for me. Safety squat bar is too much of a front squat for my purposes. So I’m going to try the belt squat this weekeend and see how it goes. Thanks.